Despite a 55% nationwide decrease in US dairy farms between 2002 and 2019, cow numbers have held steady. Donald Trump’s secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue, echoed these sentiments at the 2019 World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin – a state that lost 10% (​more than 800) of its dairy farms that year. A farmer feeds cows on a small farm in Hugo, Minnesota, September 2019. “I sometimes think the right way to say it is that there are ghosts in the land,” says Jim. Photograph: Getty ImagesBack at the pub in Greenwald, dairy farmer James Kanne addressed the room.

Source: The Guardian June 01, 2021 06:00 UTC